document_title: Charlie Day

question_text: when did charlie and the waitress start dating

text: Charlie Day

text: Early life[edit]

text: Day was born in New York City. His mother, Mary (née Peckham), was a piano teacher at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. His father, Dr. Thomas Charles Day, is a retired professor of music history at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.[3] His mother has English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry, while his father is of Irish and Italian descent.[4] Day spent most of his childhood in Middletown, Rhode Island.

text: Day attended Pennfield School and graduated from the Portsmouth Abbey School, both in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He starred on the baseball team at the Portsmouth Abbey School, playing shortstop for the Ravens. In 1998, he received a bachelor's degree from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. At Merrimack, he was active in the Onstagers, Merrimack's student theater organization. He also played varsity baseball for the Warriors baseball team. During the summers of his college years, he was active in the training programs at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In 2014, he received an honorary doctorate in performing arts from Merrimack, where he also delivered that year's keynote address.[5]

text: Career[edit]

text: Besides playing Charlie Kelly on the hit FX television series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, he is also one of the show's executive producers and one of its writers, along with Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton. Day has written and improvised some of the music featured in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.[6] He has also appeared on several other television shows such as Third Watch, Law & Order, and Reno 911!.

text: He appeared in New Line Cinema's Horrible Bosses in July 2011, with Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, and Jamie Foxx.[7] He also had a role in the 2010 film Going the Distance, alongside Justin Long, Jason Sudeikis, and Drew Barrymore. In 2013, he voiced the character Art in the Pixar animated film Monsters University and appeared in Guillermo del Toro's film Pacific Rim. In 2017, Day starred in Fist Fight, with Ice Cube. In it, Day plays Andy Campbell, a high school English teacher challenged by his co-worker, history teacher Ronald Strickland (Cube), to a fight after getting him fired. In 2018, he reprised his role for the Pacific Rim sequel, Pacific Rim Uprising.[8]

text: Day has also been a producer for the television shows How to Be a Gentleman and Unsupervised. Day hosted the November 5, 2011 episode of Saturday Night Live (SNL) with Maroon 5 as the musical guest. He was the second cast member from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to host SNL (after Danny DeVito, though DeVito hosted SNL before It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiered). DeVito made a special appearance during Day's opening monologue.[9] In September 2014, Day provided his voice for The Sims 4 TV spots.

text: Personal life[edit]

text: Day has been married to actress Mary Elizabeth Ellis since March 4, 2006.[10] They met in 2001 and were dating in 2004 when they co-starred as incestuous siblings on Reno 911!.[11] Ellis has a recurring role on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as "The Waitress", an unnamed coffee shop employee and object of the unrequited love and obsession for Day's character.[11] The couple had their first child, a son named Russell Wallace, in 2011.[12]

text: Filmography[edit]

text: Film[edit]

text:
Year
Title
Role
Notes

2000
Mary and Rhoda
Mailroom Kid
Television film

2001
Late Summer
Trevor
Short film

2001
Campfire Stories
Joe Boner

2002
Bad Company
Stoner
Uncredited

2005
Love Thy Neighbor
Video Clerk

2008
A Quiet Little Marriage
Adam

2010
Going the Distance
Dan

2011
Horrible Bosses
Dale Arbus

2013
Monsters University
Art
Voice

2013
Pacific Rim
Dr. Newt Geiszler

2013
Party Central
Art
Voice
Short film

2014
The Lego Movie
Benny
Voice

2014
Horrible Bosses 2
Dale Arbus

2015
Vacation
Chad

2016
The Lego Movie: 4D - A New Adventure
Benny
Voice
Short film
Attraction

2016
The Hollars
Jason

2017
Fist Fight
Andrew "Andy" Campbell
Also Executive Producer

2017
I Love You, Daddy
Ralph

2018
Pacific Rim Uprising
Dr. Newton Geiszler

2018
Hotel Artemis
Acapulco
Post-production

text: Television[edit]

text:
Year
Title
Role
Notes

2000
Madigan Men
Clerk
Episode: "Three Guys, a Girl and a Conversation Nook"

2001
Law & Order
Jeremy
Episode: "Swept Away – A Very Special Episode"

2001–2004
Third Watch
Michael Boscorelli
5 episodes

2003
Luis
Richie
10 episodes

2004
Reno 911!
Inbred Twin
Episode: "Not Without My Mustache"

2005–present
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Charlie Kelly
134 episodes, also executive producer and writer

2011
Saturday Night Live
Himself (host)
Episode: "Charlie Day/Maroon 5"

2012
Unsupervised
Jesse Judge
Voice
Episode: "Jesse Judge Lawncare Incorporated"

2012
Saturday Night Live
Congressman Fenton Worthington Carrey
Episode: "Jamie Foxx/Ne-Yo"

2012
American Dad!
Meth Head
Voice
Episode: "Adventures in Hayleysitting"

2014
Drunk History
Allan Pinkerton
Episode: "Baltimore"

text: Video games[edit]

text:
Year
Title
Voice role

2013
Disney Infinity
Art

2015
Lego Dimensions
Benny

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text:
Year
Award
Category
Film/Show
Result

2011
Critics' Choice Television Award
Best Actor in a Comedy Series
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Nominated

Satellite Award
Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Nominated